Citigroup Inc., Barclays Plc, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and Japan’s MUFG Bank Ltd. will be fined 90 million Swiss francs (91 mln. USD) by the Switzerland’s competition regulator for their role in a cartel to rig the foreign exchange markets, several weeks after the...
Last October the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) set in circulation more than 46 million $50 currency notes with an insignificant misspelling, but monumental in sheer scope. The value of the misprinted notes is said to be over $2.3 billion AUD, or $1.58 billion USD. Never before has a spelling...
A wildlife technician, Richard Thomas, took the famous tongue twister, “how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood” and calculated a rough estimate of what the answer would actually be. It came out to be around 700 pounds.
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) proposed a tiered risk-based approach to leverage as a permanent national measure for investor protection.
The Cypriot regulator intends to introduce stricter leverage limits for retail clients falling within the ‘grey area’ (1:20), and...
I never said I believe we've actually been visited by aliens. If anything, if they exist, they are probably just as stuck to their home planets or home solar systems at best, trying to solve the same math and physics problems we are trying to solve to make interstellar travel possible.
I think that the universe is much too vast for us to be the only sentient beings in it.
I also think that the majority of UFO encounters can be explained away as completely mundane. People mistake all sorts of things for UFOs - planes, birds, sometimes even the moon.